Cartagena Local Police will deploy between 6 and 12 June a special campaign traffic to detect elalcohol and drugs while driving around the municipality, in cooperation with the DGT.
The controls are carried out in different parts of the city, preferably in districts and councils.
The driver who drives a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or narcotics may be punished with the withdrawal of the driving license and imprisonment in his case.
The purpose of these tests for alcohol and drugs is drivers that driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs while driving increases the braking distance and reduces the reaction time, undermining the physical and psychic abilities awareness, being the cause of numerous traffic accidents.
Alcohol is present as concurrent or triggering factor in a third of fatal accidents.
His presence on driving depending on your rate, multiplied between 2 and 15 the risk of an accident.
The Road Safety Act, the General Traffic Regulations and Criminal Code set the regulations applicable to the maximum generic and specific limits of alcohol allowed while driving, where the breach of these rules is classified as very serious grave breach or withdrawal of driving license and imprisonment in his case
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena